Improvement in washing-machines



FLORANGE GITTERE.

WASHING-MACHINE.

ITO-176,362. Patented Nov. 23,1875.

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FLORANOE GITTEBE, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

' IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170,362, dated November23, 1875; application filed March 11, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FLORANGE GITTERE,

of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have in venteda Washing-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same, having reference to theaccompanying sheet of drawings, which makes a part of thisspecification, and illustrates my invention more fully.

This invention relates to improvements in washing-machines and itconsists in the de-.

tails of construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafterdescribed, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a washing-machineprovided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan, and Fig. 3 a sideelevation, of the same.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in the various figures.

A is the tub of a washing-machine. It is a rectangular receptacle,having a double inclined bottom, and closed by the covers B B. G is aseries of rollers, constituting the abrading-surt'ace in conjunctionwith dasher D. The rollers are pivoted within side pieces 0, whereinthey freely revolve. The dasher D is pivoted within the sides of the tubA at D, and it is actuated by a hand-lever, E, movably attached to twouprights, A, through the medium of a connecting-rod, F, which rod passesthrough a slot-hole in the covers B B. One of the covers, B, is movablyattached by hinges to a stationary transverse piece, B, upon the top andon the rear of the tub A, and the other, B, in a like manner to amovable transverse piece sliding between guides B, fastened upon the topof the said tub, in the front thereof. The transverse piece of the coverB is sufficiently shorter than the cover B to fit the guides B, and bothits ends are tapered or beveled. to fit the corresponding bevel of thesaid guides B. Each of the covers is provided with an indent in itsadjacent edge, which forms a slot-hole for the passage of theconnecting-rod E, and the'operation of the cover B is such that when itis closed it will lock itself behind the guides B, and is thus preventedfrom sliding out, while, when the said cover is turned up, it will clearthe said guides and can easily be removed.

Having thus. fully described my invention, in order to enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains, or with which itis mostnearly connected, to make and use the same, I desire to secure to me byLetters Patent of the United States the following:

The combination, with the tub A, of the hinged cover B, attached totransverse pieces B, constructed to slide in guides B to render thecover removable, substantially in the manner set forth and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FLOBANGE GITTERE.

Witnesses:

MICHAEL J. STARK, JOHN B. EDMONDS.

